Sports rallies, new and expensive equipment, tons of attention on big games; this is just one of the many issues with high school’s educational system. More recently, high school has been a place of sports and busy work, not allowing the students to experience any real life scenarios or focus directly on education and a student’s knowledge. There is plenty of room for the educational system to improve and high schools to become a more useful environment for adolescents, including a secluded focus on social and life skills, as opposed to all focus being put onto on the next “big game” or achieving the highest test scores. In recent studies, high school has become big on sports and other non curricular school activities, which allow the educational system to be neglected. These athletic students are granted to continue with their sport, solely on a 2.0 GPA, which suggests a decrease in work ethic and a way to make sports their biggest priority, rather than studying for an upcoming test or quiz. As said by Leon Botstein, “the team sports of high school dominate more than students culture.” (source 3) Our schools push the success of these sports teams and expect …show more content…
Of course, these two conceptions couldn’t be any more false. In addition to the two issues I believe the high schools educational system possess, there is the unfortunate truth of the low U.S. math performance scores. The first state ranked on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam is 17th, and the U.S. average is 31st. (source 6) The source to this predicament is the enforcement of attaining high test scores on the students, and less on the actual material and knowledge. If the students weren’t so centralized on these scores and instead were more concentrated on their learning, the exam scores would, without a doubt, increase